6.5

CVE-2026-61908: cyrus imap Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-61908DEBIAN-CVE-2026-61908
Published 09-09-2026Last modified 10-09-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-61908 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in cyrus imap. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.22%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21929-1

Timeline

  1. 09-09-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 10-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Cyrus IMAP before 3.12.4. A JMAP email-header blob ID can reference an out-of-bounds index. An authenticated user could attempt to download a crafted JMAP blob ID of the form H<emailid>-<index>, which could read past the end of the internal blob_headers array during download, exposing adjacent heap memory.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.22% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.22%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Cyrus1 product
  • imap< 3.8.8 | ≥ 3.9.0, < 3.10.4 | ≥ 3.11.0, < 3.12.4
Cyrusimap1 product
  • cyrus_imap< 3.8.8 | ≥ 3.9.0, < 3.10.4 | ≥ 3.11.0, < 3.12.4
Debian1 product
  • cyrus-imapdAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 3.12.4-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • cyrus-imapdAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 4 products

References

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